[GRASS-dev] Re: r38992 Vect_get_num return long

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2009/9/13 Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork at googlemail.com>:
> AFAIKT, r38992 Vect_get_num return long has no effect because the number of
> features (for each type) is stored as plus_t which is int. If you want to

Right, I postponed this problem, thanks for raising it up.

> prepare the vector libs to support more than INT_MAX objects, I would
> suggest to use
>
> plus_t Vect_get_num_primitives(const struct Map_info *, int);
>
> etc and then think about what type is appropriate for plus_t.

Seems to be a good idea.

> I would suggest *not* to use long because long is the same like int on 32
> bit (4 bytes) and the same like long long int on 64 bit (8 bytes), i.e. a
> vector written with 64 bit may not be readable with 32 bit which is against
> all the efforts to keep the vector format independent of
> platform/architecture/compiler. Some unsigned integer type should work, else
> some checks would be needed similar to what Glynn recently implemented to
> get an integer type of size 8 in port_init.c. E.g. use long if possible else
> use long long if possible else fatal error, no integer of size 8 available
> (or is there something else that could have a size of 8 ?).

Right, I will change long to plus_t for now.

Martin

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